Aircraft Quotes
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Aircraft Quotes & Sayings
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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.
— Ben Goldacre
I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?
— Richard Hugo
The gospel comes to the world not like an aircraft seeking an existing landing strip but like a bomb, which creates its own crater when it arrives.
— Tony Lane
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.
— Jacques Rosay
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— Eric Brown
I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
— John F. Kerry
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
— Nido R. Qubein
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
— Denis Healey
Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.
— Steven Magee
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
— Moira Johnston
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— Tarja Moles
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
— Adolf Galland
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
— Robin Sloan
You no longer need to fly a World War II aircraft in an age of jet fighters, and you no longer need to weigh yourself against a non-existent Norma.
— Todd Rose
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
— Joe Biden
I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.
— Craig Ferguson
What in the hell is going on around here?" she yelled. "Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-carrier noise?
— Rachel Caine
It's possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?
— Martin Amis
After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.
— Tyler Cowen
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
— Alan Shepard
An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.
— Romesh Gunesekera
When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead.
— Patricia Cornwell
If you have traveled on a jet airplane, then you have had a high powered radiation exposure that you have no genetic adaptation to.
— Steven Magee
Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.
— James Cook
An aircraft operated by a woman was unheard of in the sky. Women were bad luck, started fires, caused fights.
— Meg Merriet
In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
— David Mackay
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— Sean M. McAteer
I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
— Norman Foster
Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?
— Hunter Lovins
To the aircraft I aim, not the man.
— Francesco Baracca
The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.
— Mark Hanna
Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.
— Adolf Hitler
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.
— William Bushnell Stout
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
— Billy Mitchell
I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.
— David Mackay
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
— Charles Kingsford Smith
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
— Barack Obama
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
— Donald Rumsfeld
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
— Charles Lindbergh
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built ... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
— Howard Hughes
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.
— Jamie Dimon
Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.
— Joseph Stalin
There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ?
— Alex Morritt
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
— Winston Churchill
You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
— Baba Kalyani
But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
— Lois Lowry
From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.
— Frank Herman Schofield
My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.
— Sam A. Patel
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.
— Erik Lindbergh
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
— Bill Gates
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
— Amar Bose